Panty



Oct. 8, 1957 H. R. SCHWARZ 2,808,592

PANTY Filed Aug. 3. i955 1N VEN TOR.

HANS R. SCHWARZ United Staf-@S Parent o PANTY Hans R. Schwarz, Newark, N. J.

Application August 3, 1955, Serial No. 526,136

1 Claim. (Cl. 2-224) This invention relates to undergarments, and more par-v ticularly has reference to a childs panty.

Summarized briey, the invention is a childs panty the rear panel and crotch portion of which are of knit goods, and hence stretchable in a transverse direction, and the front panel of which is of woven material relatively non-stretchable both in transverse and longitudinal directions. The panty, further, is so designed .that the upper end of the crotch panel is arcuately jbowed upwardly, while the lower edge of the front panel, between the leg openings of the undergarment, is bowed inwardly complementarily to the bowed edge of the crotch panel.

Most usually, an undergarment for small children designed primarily for utilitarian characteristics, rather than for combined dress and utilitarian characteristics, is wholly of knit goods and further, has a straight transverse seam between the leg openings at the meeting point of the front panel and crotch panel.

One important object of the presentinvention, in this regard, is to embodyin what may be generally called a primarily utilitarian undergarment of the knit goods type, a front panel which, being of woven rather than knit material, will have an appearance more attractive to the ordinary purchaser, by reason of its adaptability for forming a substantial part of the front area of an undergarment of the type commonly known as athletic shorts, from woven rather than the usual knit material.

Another object is to provide la combined action in the knit rear panel and woven front panel, and in the crotch panel, deriving from the particular characteristics of these panels as regards stretchability or the lack of it, that will make the garment more comfortable when Worn, land will prevent distortion or deformation of a front panel usually occurring due to pull thereon by the rear and crotch panels.

A further object of importance is to provide a garment in which a relatively non-stretchable front panel, joined to a laterally stretchable crotch panel by a curved seam, will permit lateral expansion of the crotch panel by the confined male organs without more than a minimum amount of pull upon or distortion of the front panel.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and laccompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of yan undergarment formed 4according to the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevational view.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical sectional view on line 3-3 of Fig. l.

Fig. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the undergarment.

Figs. 5 and 6 are plan views of the crotch panel members which when superimposed provide the completed crotch panel.

The reference numeral 10 designates a rear panel of the undergarment, formed wholly from a single piece of knit goods, and having a straight top edge 12 and side edges 14 diverging downwardly from the ends of the top edge. At their lower ends, the side edges 14 terminateV at the outer ends of downwardly convergent, inwardlyv curved edges forming the back edge portions of the leg openings of the undergarment, and at their convergent ends, the edges 16 terminate at the oppositev ends of -a straight, relatively short bottom edge 18nparalleling the top edge 12. 4 f

The front panel 20 is formed wholly from woven material as distinguished from the back panel, and isV relatively non-stretchable both horizontally and vertically. Thev back panel, as shown in Fig. 2, hasV its wales running vertically, and is freely and resiliently expansible in a lateral direction, though not ina vertical direction.

The front panel 20 has a straight top edge, and downwardly diverging side edges 22 meeting at their lower ends the outer edges of edges -24 which are inclined slightly from the horizontal, in a direction downwardly from the side edges, terminating at their inner ends lat opposite ends of a relatively short, arcuately and upwardly curving bottom edge 26 of the front panel.

The vertical dimension of the front panel is substantially less than the greatest vertical dimension of the back panel, and connected between the edges 18, 26 is Iacrotch panel of double thickness, knit goods, composed of superposed crotch panel members respectively shown in Figs. 5 and 6 per se. Y.

'The outer crotch panel Vmember has been designated at 28, and has an arcuately, outwardly bowed top edge 30 which, by reason of the provision of a vertically elongated, curving recess 32 lin one side. ofA the: crotch panel member 28, does not extend the full width of said panel member. The bottom edge 34 of the crotch panel member 28 is straight, extending normally to the straight side edges of the crotch panel member. In a commercial embodiment, the side edges of the crotch panel member can be inwardly curved slightly, so as to prevent bunching of the material between the legs of the wearer.

The inner crotch panel member 36 is identical top'anel member 28, except for having its recess 38 opening upon the opposite side `from that on which the recess 32 opens. The upper edge 40 of panel member 36 is arcuately curved in an upward direction, and being curved about the same center as edge 30, forms a continuation of the edge 30, so that the completed crotch panel, after super-t posing of the panel members one upon the other, has an arcuate, upwardly bowed top edge extending full width of the crotch panel and meeting with the inwardly curved bottom edge 26 of the front panel 20 of the undergarment.

The bottom edge 42 of the panel member 36 is straight, and substantially registers with edge 34, for connection of both of these edges to the straight bottom edge 1S of the back panel.

In connecting the panels to complete the garment, stitching 44 is employed (Fig. 3), to connect the side edges 14, 22 of the back and front panels respectively, and an elastic waistband 46 is stitched to the top edges of the back and front panels extending through the full circumstances of the garment at the top thereof. Stitching 48 is applied, following the curved edges 26, 30, 40, to join the superposed panel members to the bottom of the front panel, and a knit binding 50 is applied about the full circumstances of the leg openings defined by edges 24, 16 of the front and back panels respectively and by the side edges of the crotch panel. Stitching 52 is used to connect the bottom edges of the crotch panel to the bottom edge 18 of the back panel, and it may be noted that when the garment is completed, the recesses 32, 38

will cooperate to define a liy construction at the front of the crotch panel.

The garment illustrated is a boys undergarment, but by eliminating recesses 32, v38 so as to leave out a fly ormation, a girls panty `can be made, :still having. the characteristics as regards relative stretchability of the front, back, and crotch panels.

The wales of the crotch .panel members are aligned with the wales of the back panel 10, so that the crotch panel members are freely stretchable in a lateral direction, as fis the back panel. As a result, when the garment is worn, all expansion in a lateral direction takes place in the back panel, and the front panel remains comfortably tted across the abdomenV of the wearer, without .binding thereagainst. Still further, the provision of `the curved seam between the .front panel .and crotch panel is :adapted to vprotectively resist deformation of the front panel, ,resulting from a bulge causedl at the front of the garment, in the area of the crotch panel, by a confined male organ. The curved formation YofV the upper end of the crotch panel permits the crotch panel to be bulged outwardly, without imparting a corresponding bulge to the front panel which is held firmly yet comfortably against the wearers abdomen by the general but nevertheless clearly exerted pull exerted thereon in opposite directions laterally, outwardly in Fig. 1, by the resiliently expanded back panel.

The back panel, as will be noted from Fig. l and also from Fig. 4, is of a width substantially greater than that of the front panel, so as to permit the back panel to be curved at its sides about the sides of the wearer, terminating at the yfront of the garment close to the sides thereof.

,While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, it isto be `understood that I do not limit myself to the precise construction herein disclosed and that'various changes and modifications may be made within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby'United States Letters Patent An undergarment comprising a back panel formed of a laterally stretchable material, a separate front panel relatively non-stretchable in a lateral direction and covering the entire front area, said front panel diverging downwardly, a waistband connected to the upper ends of the front and back panels andextending through the full circumference of the undergarment, and a crotch panel connected between the low'errends of the front and back panels medially-between the sides of the garment and cooperating with the front and back panels to form leg openings at opposite sides of thecrotch panel, said back panel being formed wholly of a knit material, and the front panel being formed wholly from Va single piece of woven material, the crotch panel also being formed of a knit material, with the wales of the crotch and back panels running in a substantially vertical direction, the crotch panel at the end thereof connected to the vfront panel being accurately bowed in .an upward direction and the front panel having medially between its sides an inwardly curving edge complementing the bowed part of the crotch panel to provide a curved seam at the point of connection of the crotch and front panels, the crotch panel having a double thickness, and including registered crotch panel members Ysubstantially equal to one another in length and Width, the crotch panelmembers being formed one with a lateral recess opening on one side of the crotch panel and the other with a lateral recess opening upon the opposite side of the crotch panel and aligned transversely with `the rst-named recess to cooperate therewith in forming a y formation.

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